Improvement in plows



drawings constitute part WILSON NOBLE, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 92,992, lated July 27, 1869; mztedated Tilly 13, 1869..

IMPROVEMEN T IN PLOWS.

The S'chedule referred to in these Letters Patent `and making part of the same To all whoml it may concern Be it known that I, WILSON NOBLE, of' New Haven, inthe county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Plows; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said of this speciiication, and represent, in

Figure 1, a perspective view, and in Figure 2, a top View. l

This invention relates, more particularly, to an im-v provement in snbsoil-plows, the object being to reduce the friction in turning the furrow; and

'Ihe invention consists in arranging, back of the plowshare, and at an angle thereto, a wheel with a corrugated or serrated surface, sothat as the earth passes over the share, it will strike the wheel, and by it be carried up and turned over, by which means the share is greatly reduced in size, and the friction, caused by the earth passing over so great a surface, is, to a great extent, removed. l

In order tothe clear understanding of my invention, I will fully describe the same as illustrated in the act colnpanying drawings;

A is the plowshare, of common construction, which extends back only suiiiciently far to out the depth and width ofthe furrow, as denoted iu iig. 2; then in the shaft B, arranged in suitable bearings C, and lying at a point above the surface of the earth, and at an angle tothe course of the furrow to be plowed, I fix a wheel, D, provided, upon its surface, with corrugations a, or otherwise ronghened, so as to presenta shoulder t'o the earth as the plow passes through the fuirow; therefore, when the earth, turned by the plow, strikes -the wheel below the shaft, it will canse the wheel to revolve iu the direction denotedby the arrow, and, with the revolving wheel, the earth will be carried up and turned over with very much less friction than if the share were continued backto produce the salue result.

The bearings upon which the wheel D is arranged, should be made adjustable, so as to present the wheel at different angles.

The beam or handles are attached in the usual or any convenient manner. t

Ifdo not wish to be understood as broadly claiming the application to a plow of a wheel which is caused to revolve by the passage of the plow through' the earth, as such, I am aware, is not new, as ina-y be secu in the patent of B. C.. Hoyt, September 2, 1856.

Having thus fully described uiy invention,

What I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

-The Wheel D, constructed with a corrugated surface, in combination with the plowshare, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

' WILSON NOBLE.

VVituesses: i

A'. J. TIBBrTs, Y J. H. SHUMWAY. 

